I love Anne Lamott. I read excerpts from her stuff in my yoga classes sometimes -- including this shitty first draft bit. It has a resonance beyond writing.
I really enjoy Anne Lamott's personal writing (as opposed to her original fiction).
I don't do shitty first drafts, though, at least for fiction. I write down one decent sentence at a time (and then, often as not, go away until the next one comes to me).
But since I promised to write an original science fiction story for a contest and have absolutely no idea where to start, maybe it's time I gave this method a go.
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I don't do shitty first drafts, though, at least for fiction. I write down one decent sentence at a time (and then, often as not, go away until the next one comes to me).
But since I promised to write an original science fiction story for a contest and have absolutely no idea where to start, maybe it's time I gave this method a go.
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